January 17th 2022

Winter Greens – The Winter edition of Green Teacher has now been published.  As usual, there are two freely-available articles: Camera Trapping  by Cate Rigoulot: A new lens on inquiry, and Project Management in EE  by John Negru Educating the environmental leaders of tomorrow about project management today. . Teacher Views – The latest edition of the journal, Educational Education Research – has an article by NAEE President, Prof Justin Dillon, and colleagues…

January 10th 2022

Cutting Edge – This year’s Edge Foundation’s Annual Lecture focused on the need to integrate the environment into the education system. The speakers were Tim Smit, co-founder of the Eden Project, George Lamb founder of GROW, a new environmental education programme that offers London-based pupils the chance to farm and learn mindfulness training, and Shaun McInerney, the Senior Project Coordinator of Ashoka Changemaker Education.  It…

January 3rd 2022

Goodbye 2021 – You can see SOS-UK’s review of the year on YouTube.  They say: “From ethical finance to sustainable food, from fuel poverty to ESD, from wellbeing to youth-led campaigns and more, we’ve reached hundreds of thousands of people.  We’re looking forward to continuing our work towards environmental justice through education in 2022.” . Partnerships Policy – SOS-UK believes in supporting students and society to…

December 20th 2021

A Curriculum for Wales – We mentioned Llanfhidian school lasy week as it’s a pilot school for the Curriculum for Wales initiative.  You can see videos about the new curriculum here and here.  And this is a link to an OECD webinar focused on the new curriculum. . University Degrees – The 2021 People & Planet University league table is now on-line, and you can see ‘successes’ and…

December 13th 2021

Leadership from our President – Click here to read what NAEE’s President, Prof Justin Dillon, has to say about the DfE’s draft climate education strategy.  This has been developed from an input he gave at NAEE’s AGM in November in response to the question: after 50 years of environmental education, what now?  His response critiques the strategy and suggests ways in…

December 6th 2021

Climate Education – Following the DfE’s publication of its draft sustainability and climate change strategy for the education and children’s service systems, it is seeking further engagement and feedback before final publication in April 2022.  DfE has also produced a video overview of its longer-term strategy plans and longer-term vision.  This engagement will be through a User Group, a Youth Panel, and 5 Working…

November 29th 2021

10 Minutes – Labour MP Nadia Whittome (Nottingham East) introduced a ten-minute rule bill into the Commons last Tuesday to require climate change and sustainability to become key content across the school curriculum, integrated into every subject.  The bill is the culmination of her work with Teach the Future on climate education and the decarbonisation of the…

November 22nd 2021

Youth Engagement Panel – The House of Lords Environment and Climate Change Committee – a cross party group of Members of the House of Lords appointed to consider the environment and climate change – is offering schools and colleges the opportunity to work with the committee and advise on the issues the Committee should look at and the…

November 8th 2021

Climate Education 1 – The DfE launched its new Sustainability & Climate Change strategy last Friday at COP26.  You can read it here.  The strategy will apply to the Department’s arms-length bodies; the education and children’s services systems in England (Early Years, Schools, Further Education, Higher Education and Children’s Social Care).  Its focus is on environmental sustainability.  DfE says that it…

November 1st 2021

In the Zone(s) – UKSSN is taking over 20 sixth form students from 12 UK regions to COP26 from 4-7 November.  Students will be featuring in the blue ministerial and green civil society zones with partners PPL PWR, Ucell and Climate Psychology Alliance, supported by Global Action Plan, the Royal Society of Chemistry outreach department and UKSSN member schools.  A further 35 UKSSN students from Year 10-13…